Postoperative intestinal adhesion

The thing people fear most in their lives is getting sick, especially a serious illness, because it can endanger their lives, so people nowadays pay great attention to health preservation. Despite this, some diseases will still find us inadvertently, and in serious cases, hospitalization and surgery are required. After surgical treatment of some diseases, some people will develop many complications due to certain physical reasons, such as postoperative intestinal adhesions.

Speaking of postoperative intestinal adhesion, it is one of many complications. The so-called postoperative intestinal adhesion actually refers to the erroneous adhesion between the intestines or between the human body and the peritoneum caused by surgery. Of course, other reasons can also cause intestinal adhesion. So, let’s introduce some precautions for postoperative intestinal adhesion.

The clinical symptoms of patients with postoperative intestinal adhesions may vary depending on the degree and location of adhesions. In mild cases, there may be no discomfort. Or occasionally, you may experience mild abdominal pain or bloating after eating. In severe cases, there may often be abdominal pain, bloating, difficulty passing gas, belching, dry stools, gas clots running around in the abdomen, and even incomplete obstruction.

Intestinal adhesion is one of the common sequelae of abdominal surgery. Severe patients cannot eat for half a year or even a year and can only receive nutrient solution, which is very painful. If intestinal adhesions are severe, surgery is the only option. However, intestinal adhesion surgery is also an abdominal surgery, and adhesion problems will still occur, so postoperative recovery habits are very important:

1. After the abdominal surgery, you should get up and go to the toilet as early as possible.

2. As long as the wound is not extremely painful, you should insist on getting out of bed and walking around.

3. You must wait until the intestines produce gas (fart) before eating semi-liquid foods or tonic soups and supplements.

4. The normal peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract is closely related to the bacterial membrane barrier in the intestine. The balance of intestinal flora must be restored as soon as possible within six months after surgery. If necessary, some regular health care products or medicines can be used to help, such as Gaobote saline bottle, French Biostime, etc.

Patients with intestinal adhesion should pay attention to the following diet: Do not eat hard food, sticky food, or fiber-rich food; do not eat cold food or drink cold drinks; eat soft food and liquid food such as porridge, steamed buns, cakes, milk, and soy milk as much as possible. Also eat small meals frequently and avoid overeating. Make sure to lie prone for an hour after each meal. The benefits of doing this are: it is beneficial to digestion and absorption, and avoids aggravation of the disease due to improper eating or food being blocked in the narrow intestinal tract at the adhesion site. Patients with intestinal adhesions should protect themselves more in terms of diet because their intestinal morphology and function are abnormal. Although the location and degree of adhesion vary, the symptoms may be more or less, and the condition may be mild or severe, no matter what changes occur between the intestinal tracts due to intestinal adhesions, the physiological structure of the intestinal tract being fixed to the posterior abdominal wall by the mesentery does not change. As long as the patient takes a prone position to protect himself after eating, the intestinal tube with food and the intestinal tube without food can be kept in the same drooping clockwise state, which is beneficial for the food in the intestinal tube above the adhesion site to slowly pass through the narrow part and safely enter the intestinal tube below the adhesion site, so that there is food in the upper and lower intestinal tubes. In this way, the pressure in the intestine is kept balanced, and the intestinal tube with food will not shift, twist or tip over. Of course, the aggravation of the disease can be avoided, and intestinal obstruction will not occur.

In fact, postoperative intestinal adhesion is just a common disease caused by surgery and physical reasons. It can be cured. Therefore, once you suffer from postoperative intestinal adhesion, the first thing you should do is to maintain a normal mentality, don’t be nervous, panic or afraid, and actively cooperate with the doctor’s arrangements. In addition, you must actively carry out postoperative exercises, drink more boiled water, eat more light food, and eat more liquid food to recover as soon as possible.